cannot mount dvd/cdrom ubuntu 9.10 acer aspire 5532

here some more info

otter@pond:~$ sudo mount /dev/dvd
[sudo] password for otter:
mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0
otter@pond:~$ cat /etc/fstab /etc/mtab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=b0bac461-8e90-4092-b7b8-18645e87254f / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=f949a3db-e440-4543-982b-0d4565727606 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda5 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
none /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/otter/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=otter 0 0

Your optical drive seems to have the following names:

logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0

Does any of these names occur in /var/log/syslog

1. during boot

2. when you insert a DVD

?

im sorry for my ignorance how do i access the /var/log/syslog

and as to inserting a cd/dvd i do not get a g.u.i. or have a recognized out put from my system as i stated in my

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/111584

please can you guide me further ... and thanks

if i goto places>computer>cd/dvd there now is a dvd shown but it wants me to open with movie player which i do

i then get this

an error occured :could not read from the resources

Can you ive the output of:

groups

Make sure you are in the cdrom group.

hello again and thanks im unsure of what you mean by "in the cdrom group"

thanks in advance

otter@pond:~$ groups
otter adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare

if thats not it please just let me know

again thanks

> how do i access the /var/log/syslog

It is a text file, so use your favorite text editor. Gedit should be fine. Even OpenOffice Word processor is OK if you so wish.

Personally I use the less command from the command line:

$ less /var/log/syslog

but searching for the required strings might not be straight forward for somebody without a longer Unix/Linux background.

Normally syslog is readable for everybody in Ubuntu. Should that not be the case you can use sudo to get around the protections.

Nowadays there is also a graphical syslog viewer available. Then you don't even have to know the exact file name :) I have never used it in Ubuntu (I'm running Kubuntu right now), so I can't tell you the exact location in the menu structure. Nor am I sure whether it existed already in 09.10, I've seen somebody using it in 10.04.

Yes, the groups command was the correct one. The output looks fine. User otter (obviously you) belongs to group cdrom.

i have switched back to my old time favorite for now xfce

i really need a fix on this but for now taking a break

not showing up here either and there isnt a computer option in places here

so limited to trying to find an actual cure as the cdrom folder remains blank

thanks for your time and think of me if you see a patch or a workaround

no the cd was not text in specific. i had backed up all my files to dvd music

documents movies etc and will have to see if i can afford to buy a larger usb

device and goto my public library and transfer everything i need to flash so that i can

use it7.

this is just so depressing and stupid. whats the point of having a touch base g.u.i.

if it will not function. im starting to think with 80,000 plus bugs open in a 2-3 million

user ratio ubuntu has opted out into the garbage heap.

these kind of things never happened in 6.04 - 7.10 what happened??? #FU................K***

what a waste of time and effort

“Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.” linus torvalds

this is almost an insult to the linux creator

well still trying no luck i have ## the cd line in fstab and tried to use a command i found in a ubu forum

otter@pond:~$ sudo mount /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom -t udf
mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0

any further ideas friends i am pulling hair out as you can tell

> otter@pond:~$ sudo mount /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom -t udf
> mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0

Well this looks like Linux recognizes your drive nicely, but the drives reports that there is no disk in it. If that's the case Linux/Ubuntu cannot do very much.

Have you tried various DVDs and CDs? Is it the same for all of them? What noises does your drive make?

Normally one can hear a couple of loud search movements and after that the drive might accelerate audibly. If there are problems recognizing the disk there will be much more aggressive and repeated search movements. One can typically hear that the drive is trying hard to recognize a readable track on the disk. But the harder its trying the less chances are that it eventually succeeds.

You still haven't reported whether any of your drive's names

logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0

occurs in the system log /var/log/syslog with any interesting message. (Most likely the name /dev/sr0 will be used internally, but you never know)